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  • Talking the Blues Podcast – the Roma game, the stadium, what type of club do we want to be and on to transfers

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We look back on a momentous day with the first capacity crowd at the Hill Dickenson stadium. We examine the pluses and minuses in what was still a test event before opening the discussion into what type of club we want to be, and what the cost implications of that might be.

    We examine the squad, talk in length about Grealish and any other potential signings coming our way. Andy & George in particularly good form!

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms!

    Thanks for listening and your ongoing support!

    1 hr 31 min
  • Talking the Blues Podcast – first US Tour game (0-3 v Blackburn) are fans getting what they deserve & changes to the women’s team ownership structure

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look back on the first game of the US tour and have wildly differing views on so much of the outcome. George and Andy’s contribution to the debate is outstanding

    A quick update on ticket pricing before turning our attention to the changes in ownership of the Everton Women’s team – EFCW. (prior to the formation of EFCW Holding Company)

    Genuinely fascinating stuff – hope you enjoy it. (Sound quality a little different as I recorded via a phone due to my location & didn’t have the opportunity to edit fully)

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms!

    Thanks for listening and your ongoing support!

    1 hr 7 min
  • Talking the Blues Podcast – post Blackburn, pre USA and a whole load of more interesting stuff

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan.

    This week George and Andy look back on the Blackburn game, before we scale each of our anxiety levels between 1 and 10, finally finishing with a very earnest conversation on the role of fans in football governance – honestly, it’s more interesting than it sounds

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms!

    Thanks for listening and your ongoing support!

    1 hr 3 min
  • Talking the Blues Podcast – the most random of pre-season chats

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy Costigan and his brother George. Recorded during the first pre-season practise match at Accrington Stanley, there’s a distinct pre-season feel to this week’s podcast.

    As always plenty of laughs and a few serious points thrown in too.

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms!

    58 min
  • Talking the Blues Podcast – 3rd episode of the close season, how Everton are going to compete

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan where we talk about transfers but more importantly the strategy going forwards. Transfers can no longer be viewed in isolation – it has to be part of a much bigger, club wide strategy – interesting conversation as always!

    Following the tragic events in Spain, we pay our deepest respects and offer our condolences to the family of Diogo Jota, may his soul rest in peace and his family find comfort in all that he achieved.

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms! The transcript will be available tomorrow.

    59 min
  • Talking the Blues Podcast – 2nd edition of close season, thoughts on DCL & how to create 15,000 new Evertonians

    Welcome to this week’s  Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. With me (Paul) not being able to find the right words to our opening, the actor amongst us (George) steps in admirably. We look at DCL’s leaving and time at Everton, new shirts and how to gain 15,000 new young Evertonians

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms! The transcript will be available tomorrow.

    1 hr 5 min
  • Talking the Blues – close season ramblings with Andy, George and Paul

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast. With not a lot of concrete news to discuss, the three of us have a good old natter, trying to put the world of football right

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms! The transcript will be available tomorrow.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Talking the Blues Podcast – transfers, the fixture list, the FIFA world club championship, Crystal Palace and Textor…

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with George and Andy Costigan. We look at a range of topics this week and extend into several non-Everton related football topics also.

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms! The transcript will be available tomorrow.

    1 hr 21 min
  • Talking the Blues Podcast….. what it means to be a Blue

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast. The title says it all…… what it means to be a Blue. Andy and George Costigan in imperious form, a stunning listen

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms! The transcript will be available tomorrow.

    58 min
  • Talking the Blues podcast – summertime – is Everton’s success dependent upon what we spend?

    Welcome to this week’s Talking the Blues Podcast with Andy and George Costigan. We spend a little bit over an hour pondering on the factors behind Everton’s future success, are the number of English players relevant and finally communications, should the Friedkins be doing more?

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    As always, our podcasts are free from subscription or advertising and are available on all major platforms! The transcript will be available  tomorrow.

    1 hr 13 min

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